I've not tested, but I would assume that these 40 bytes are free to use, like the bytes from BFE0 to BFFF :) It seems so! It's initialized as the following TEXT lines, just not displayed. This rings a bell with one of your pages where you explain the TEXT/HIRES mix mode and in an example, the highe...

Hey, I just realized I completely forgot about checking the tap you sent me! Sorry, sorry, sorry... I'll do it ASAP. No problem ;) Hope it works for you. Tested it fine on 90% of my Oric-1 and Atmos (10 machines, 1 fail). BTW, I realise the idea of killing the HIRES Loading bug is not so useful... ...

Hi, The HIRES drawing screen ends in BF3F. The 3 TEXT lines at the bottom range from BF68 to BFE0. What happens between BF40 and BF67? Is this wasted RAM space? Is this line invisible because something like it holds an attribute to switch from HIRES to TEXT? Do you think thiese bytes can be used to ...

Questions for you guys. For the price of 0,002 seconds of additional loading time ( :lol: ), I think I can fix (in Novalight) the ugly HIRES Loading bug from ROM 1.0, that displays "Loading" in the middle of a HIRES screen being loaded. The question is: should I keep this bug, being typical of the R...

I'm currently working at reducing the loader's loading time. It's about 1.1 second and this is a penalty for multipart programs, expecially if they're short.
I hope I can reduce it to something like 0.9 seconds (or better?), by structuring the code differently.

All those other options are very interesting, keep bringing them on ;) (Initially I made this table was because I needed extremely compact and fast ways to set/test/branch; I counted bytes and cycles many, many times... But having other ways to do is very interesting and can sometimes spare a specif...

+1 I think you're right. I belive these "merged" files were created 1st to record BIG files, like accounts history, addresses, whatever. Here André seemed to have used this feature in another way, to make a multipart file. In the end it's probably technically the same thing, but used for two differe...

Hi, I bought years ago a Pravetz 8D. At the time, I tried to load tapes and it didn't seem to work. Tried again today, to see if Novalight would work on it, but same result: zero loading, any source, standard format, tried two players, various sound volume... All my other Orics load nicely anything....

Sorry, not much time for this thread at the moment, but: maybe it should be changed at several places on the disk? From vague memories, there are banks, as well as INIT command (building a new disk), that might duplicate some code. Also, you can try downloading Sedoric 4 and see if you can find how ...

Here is the info which describes what PATCH.001 is and how to create it. The info is extracted from "SEDORIC 3.0 à NU". patch-001.pdf To create file is used: COPYM"P?"TO"PATCH.001" which merges the 3 parts. Unfortunately, I don't know more about Sedoric internals. Maybe @Symoon can help more (or an...